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Topic: Light in the top left corner

Hello!

When I turn off the display of my chumby I can see a blinking light in the top left corner of the plastic-frame around the display. Does anyone know what this light is used for? (And perhaps how to turn it off or at least stop blinking?)

Re: Light in the top left corner

Re: Light in the top left corner

@ChumbyWumby: It is really easy:

The following instructions assume you use Windows.

1. Get yourself a tool, which can handle tar files (e.g. http://www.7-zip.org/)2. Insert an USB stick to your computer and unpack the tar archive to you USB stick -> Let's say your USB drive is "E:\", then there must be two files after unpacking: E:\userhook1 E:\rt73.ko

Re: Light in the top left corner

I've used the mod for about a week and it works perfectly. Thanks Rolf! Hope it winds up in an official release. I'm using it in combination with a custom script that automatically shuts off the screen about a minute after night mode is selected and turns it back on by touching the touchscreen. I'll post my script soon.

Re: Light in the top left corner

@Ken

just a heads up that the with the 1.7 firmware release, the lights are back on. I've reinstalled this mod for the interim but you may want to check and see if it got accidently dropped in 1.7 and bring it back for 1.8.

Re: Light in the top left corner

dhl wrote:

@Ken

just a heads up that the with the 1.7 firmware release, the lights are back on. I've reinstalled this mod for the interim but you may want to check and see if it got accidently dropped in 1.7 and bring it back for 1.8.

Thanks, dhl. QA has opened a bug for this issue and were tracking it for the next release. In the interim, if you'd like to patch the rt73 driver to disable the LED again, we'll be posting the kernel source and build instructions using the new toolchain soon.

Re: Light in the top left corner

Ken wrote:

dhl wrote:

@Ken

just a heads up that the with the 1.7 firmware release, the lights are back on. I've reinstalled this mod for the interim but you may want to check and see if it got accidently dropped in 1.7 and bring it back for 1.8.

Thanks, dhl. QA has opened a bug for this issue and were tracking it for the next release. In the interim, if you'd like to patch the rt73 driver to disable the LED again, we'll be posting the kernel source and build instructions using the new toolchain soon.

UpdateI've seen a couple threads discussing this issue so wanted to report that Rolf's rt73 patch above is *not* working for me with 1.7 firmware.I don't have the tools or know how to make the .ko patch myself so @Rolf if you're still following this thread, perhaps you could investigate further.